PILGRIMAGE

Here God gives his people some taste, that they may not faint; and he gives them but a taste, that they may long to be at home, that they may keep humble, that they may sit loose from things below, that they may not break and despise bruised reeds, and that heaven may be more sweet to them at last.

Thomas Brooks

Blest be the day that I began

A pilgrim to be;

And blessèd also be that man

That thereto movèd me.

Fullness to such, a burden is,

That go on pilgrimage:

Here little, and hereafter bliss,

Is best from age to age.

John Bunyan

As I walk’d through the wilderness of this world …

John Bunyan

Who would true valor see,

Let him come hither;

One here will constant be,

Come wind, come weather.

There’s no discouragement

Shall make him once relent

His first avowed intent

To be a pilgrim

John Bunyan

They live in their own countries, but as travelers. They share everything as citizens, they suffer everything as foreigners. Every foreign land is their own country, their own country a foreign land. They pass their life here on earth, but are citizens of heaven. They obey the laws of the land, but they out-do the laws in their own lives.

Diognetus

It was always our custom that when we arrived at our intended destination to first of all say a prayer, then to read a section of Scripture. Then we sang an appropriate psalm and then said a prayer again. With God’s help we always kept to this custom at each place we visited.

Egeria

Begin your journey in God’s name; but be sure to have with you two necessary instruments, Humility and Charity. These are contained in the words above mentioned, which must always be present to your mind, “I am naught, I have naught, I desire only one thing and that is our Lord Jesus, and to be with Him at peace in Jerusalem.”

Walter Hilton